Bill 201 does nothing to address parties’ receipt of money in return for meetings with Cabinet members. Instead, it delivers another blow to democracy in the form of a full-on frontal assault against working class participation in electoral politics.

Growing numbers of Canadians recognize that Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian lands, its separation wall in the West Bank and the imprisonment of Gaza constitute a very real form of racist apartheid.

The similarities between 1888 and 2016 are striking: two parties engage in the same trickery to occupy the highest positions in the country, to ultimately execute the pre-ordained policies of exploitation, imperialism and hegemony of the few.